i’m guessing the rat was dead.. or, i’d hope you would have adopted it, named it Splinter, and raised it well.. – check out my site sometime, as fellow X-E fans, maybe you’ll dig some of the content.. – be well!

I think it was dead, or very close to it, if it was alive I would’ve done just that.
Strangely, the day before I was buying dog food at Petcetera(god that name is terrible) and I was so close to buying a rat.